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Gliese 445

A red dwarf star in the constellation Camelopardalis, emitting a bright orange glow, with two planets visible in its orbit against a backdrop of stars.

A red dwarf star in the constellation Camelopardalis, currently about 17.6 light years from the Sun and approaching us at an unusually high velocity. In around forty thousand years Voyager 1 will pass within 1.6 light years of it — the probe's closest stellar encounter in the foreseeable future. Gliese 445 is too faint to see without a telescope.

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